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Parents Are Outraged In NYC With Police Brutality Against Young Public School Students - ParentAdvocates.org

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Parents Are Outraged In NYC With Police Brutality Against Young Public School Students
"There's no reason to handcuff a 7-year-old. I don't care who you are," the mom said. "There's no 7-year-old dangerous enough - unless they're holding a gun and even then I question whether they knew how to use it."

Bronx mom speaks from experience: City has no business handcuffing 7-year-old children
Brian Branch Price for Daily News
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Dillon Lynch, an autistic 7-year-old from the Bronx, is too traumatized to talk about being handcuffed following an incident at school.

An autistic 7-year-old was hauled out of a Bronx public school in metal handcuffs last year - the second case of a cuffed youngster to come to light this week.

Mom Siobhan Lynch told the Daily News about her second-grader's harsh punishment after reading about another 7-year-old special education student getting cuffed at a Queens school on April 13.

The family sued the city and settled earlier